| AIS Program Review 2009-2010 |
| 05 May 2010 |
| Summary of results from the AIS Winter Sport Programs in 2009-2010. [more] |
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| Most successful Olympic Winter Games year |
| 05 May 2010 |
| Vancouver 2010 provided a brilliant conclusion to the Olympic Winter Institute’s 2006/7-2009/10 quadrennium, as Australia’s winter sports athletes collected a record medal haul.
For the first time, the nation could proudly claim three Winter Games medallists, as well as a string of other top ten placings. [more] |
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| Vancouver 2010 Australian Team Site |
| 01 March 2010 |
| To view all of the key Australian team content from the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games, please visit the AOC Vancouver site at olympics.com.au [more] |
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| Athletes set to take on world’s fastest track |
| 25 January 2010 |
| Two former surf lifesavers and a former handball star are the latest athletes to be selected for the Vancouver 2010 Australian Olympic Winter Team.
Emma Lincoln-Smith and Melissa Hoar have been selected as Australia’s two female skeleton athletes aiming to tame the fastest track in the world – head on. [more] |
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| Second top ten to Hoar |
| 16 January 2010 |
| Melissa Hoar has recorded her second top ten result for the season, finishing 10th in the World Cup in St Moritz.
Hoar’s time for her two runs down the Swiss track was 2 minutes 21.99 seconds, 1.57 seconds behind race winner Shelley Rudman of Great Britain.
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| Aussie sliders both top ten |
| 09 January 2010 |
| Just one hundredth of a second separated Melissa Hoar and Emma Lincoln-Smith in the Konigssee skeleton World Cup overnight, the pair both finishing in the top ten.
Competing in her second World Cup for the season, Hoar was lying in sixth position after the first run, but posted the 13th fastest time on her second journey down the Konigssee track to finish in ninth place overall, in a time of one minute 39.34 seconds, 1.08 seconds behind race winner Melissa Hollingsworth of Canada.
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| Steele on the podium as selection battle continues |
| 08 January 2010 |
| Michelle Steele has finished in second place in an Intercontinental Cup competition in Lake Placid, as Australia’s four skeleton athletes battle it out for one of two places available at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.
Steele recorded a two run total time of one minute 52.45 seconds on the 1980 Olympic course, 0.18 seconds behind Canadian Sarah Reid.
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| Skeleton quinellas for Steele and Chaffer |
| 19 December 2009 |
| Michelle Steele and Lucy Chaffer have taken the quinella in successive America’s Cup skeleton races, the pair sharing victories in a dominant display of sliding.
Steele marked her move down from World Cup ranks with a gold medal performance in the first of the two events, racing down the Lake Placid track in New York in a combined time of one minute 54.05 seconds, 0.74 seconds ahead of her AIS team-mate and a massive 2.26 seconds ahead of the rest of the field.
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| ‘Atrocious’ weather destroys skeleton chances |
| 12 December 2009 |
| Emma Lincoln-Smith has copped the worst of the weather conditions in her opening run in the Winterberg skeleton World Cup, missing a place in the second run for the first time in two years.
The 24-year-old AIS scholarship holder started her run as heavy snow fell on the track, ending any hope she had of her fourth consecutive top ten result for the season.
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